Sen. Frank Murkowski

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Murkowski sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his
position in the Senate.

Each dot in the chart below is a member of the Senate. The dots are positioned horizontally according
to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top).
Murkowski is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Voting Record

From Jan 1981 to Nov 2002, Murkowski missed 508 of 7,913 roll call votes, which is 6.4%. This is worse than the median of 1.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Nov 2002.
The chart below reports missed votes over time.

Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000